Peter Houghton loved his Superman lunchbox. It was the very thing that empowered him to get on the bus and begin his school career. However, the "villain's" on the bus laced him with kryptonite when they threw his lunch box out of the window and on to the pavement. The truth is we all have some sort of kryptonite in our lives. What is your Kryptonite or the thing that weakens you? How do you overcome the effects of Kryptonite?
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I agree with this because everyone does have their own kryptonite in their lives. mine is when my friends use my secrets i told them against me. this has happened before and they threatened me that if i didnt do or say what they wanted they would tell everyone my secret. how horrible is that? so i don't hang out or talk to them anymore because they just gave me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach and just were crude people. but now my friends are awesome and support me in every way :) well some of them anyway
~Veronica Lee Browne~
P.S.~ FiRsT tO CoMmEnT YaYyYyYyY!
my kryptonite is people that are not real around me and i overcome this by avoiding people that don't like being themselves.
- A Cherry
I have to say, self-doubt is my kryptonite. I'm constantly wavering on decisions that I've made or things that I've said. It weighs on me when I have to judge my own decisions as good or bad. I guess it is good to be self-critical once in awhile, but for some, it is crippling. I try to overcome this by repeating to myself "that my words have value as does the vessel that houses them."
Off the topic, I really want to fly like Superman. I'd love to strap Gianna to my back and just take off. We'd probably end up at Sesame Place.
I don't really get bullied, or made fun of, and my family is ok so those aren't me kryptonite. So, I think what bothers me the most right now is when my mom, brothers, or Kelsey are upset. when my mom gets upset from something that happened I like to sit down with her and talk to her because I know it always makes her happy. Having two twin brothers you know that they can work together sometimes, but they both fight to be at the top of their grade, and they will do anything to get there. Sometimes when they go back and forth telling secrets about each other they rip down themselves, but when this does happen they go right to their room and I follow right behind them and talk to them cause I love to see that frown turn right into a smile. It touches your heart, but what bothers me the most to the point where I cry is when kelsey is upset about her friends, family. or even me. All thats shes been through I still wonder how she makes it through every day. It makes me cry every time even if tears don't always come out you, but know what I mean. (So I guess my kryptonite is other peoples kryptonite in a weird kinda way) :)MATT(:
My Kryptonite is people that are mean and don't mind others feelings. They don't really care if they do somehting like throwing someones lunch box out the window. I don't know how you couldn't feel any emotion's when hurting someone so much.
Loattes
i think thats really sweet about how much you care about kelsey matt! good job
-jess packard
aww tell Gianna I said hi!!
Leah Oattes
my kryptonite would probably be when someone puts me down, my family does it without realizing but i usually go to somebody i can trust to tell. for instance when something happens and i dont know which one of my friends could help me more with the situation... i can always rely on austin. sometimes when your weak, you need someone else to lean on. so if i really thought about it, i guess my kryptonite would be being hurt and my superman isn't myself. my superman would be the people who keep my hopes up and help me through tough times.
p.s. matt has a great point and his kryptonite really stands for something.
-alexis(:
my kryptonite would probabaly be when little kids like 5th and 6th graders are being mean to eachother and calling each individual out and cursing at them. it makes me realize how messed up the world is right now wherre little kids can sit there and hack at someone and have no idea how much they are hurting that person.it really makes me weak when i hear innocent kids going at one another. i dont know it kinda makes me realize that instead of accepting everyone as individuals they take their individuality and turn it aginst them and thats taking away all that that person had.
-jessica packard
veryyy nice alexis
and i think thats really good that you have a guy friend like austin that you can tell your problems to because if your in a fight with all your friends.. you always have him to lean on
-jess packard
My kryptonite is telling my friends something and then getting in a fight and having that one person turn on me and says "well im gonna tell everything who you like" or something like that. Thats happened to me many times and she did it again this year, she started spreading rumors about me and someone saying it wasnt her who started it. Now, I've learned to sometimes rethink things when she tells me stuff and not tell her my deapest secrets. Im lucky i have my 3 Bestfriends who i know will keep the secrets and things I tell them my secret and untold, thank you guys for that(: So i dont trust her as much as i did, and she still asks why i dont tell her things.
-nichole(:
i think that my kryptonite is probably when my friends are mad at me. it just wears me down cause i just never know what to do or say and it just makes me lose my confidence around them and that just makes me sad cause i cant be myself around my friends that i always have fun with. and they are my only friends that carry my secrets in their head at all times and they could blurt them out at any time. so when my friends are mad at me, i just worry that they would take it too far and say my secrets to everyone. i try to overcome that by just talking to them when they seem mad at me and just work it out.
*bridget*
I totally agree with you Bridget, I feel the same way. Good Job!!(:
-nichole(:
i just wanna say to alexis that now that i think about you are very lucky to have a guy friend to talk to when all goes wrong because i dont have a guy friend like that. i thought i did but then he always told my other friend things sooo i really dont tell him things anymore so i woulkd thank austin and tell him that your lucky
because you really are
-jess packard
jess you make a really good point! ive heard 5th graders cursing and calling eachother faggots and thats just messed up. they dont realize that they're hurting them, just like peter's kryptonite.
-alexis(:
thanks alexis!!!
:)
-jess packard
of courseee!
-alexis(:
My krytonite is my family and friends. When you hurt them, you hurt me in some type of way too. Because all my friends and my family have a piece of my heart. And I usually don't overcome the effects of kryptonite. I still talk about what people said to my friends or family 'til today. I stick up for them if I hear someone say something about them. I just can't keep my mouth shut because I know it hurts them. And no one deserves to get made fun of. Sometimes I do it in a polite way but if I'm in a bad mood, walk away! hahaa. :)
-Amanda Bartholomew
I think my kryptonite is myself.. if that makes sense. i dont think i have a high self esteme so that makes me be someone im not trying to be (sometimes)but thats not how i wanna be viewed by everyone. but i feel like myself isnt good enough sometimes. i dont know why but i have just always been like that. shy and insecure, and thats why i think i like this blog so much. but when im around my friends i can be myself. i dont know how to overcome my insecurities and be less shy.
~Autumn <33
P.S. i really really like what matt said:)
autumn,
i feel the same wayyy!! i dont know why, but when my friends are around, i just have a bigger confidence in me. im trying to overcome it, but i dont know how. i think its cause when atleast one of my friends are there, i feel like theres someone there that will stick up for me 100% if something happens to me. its just frustrating sometimes cause when i come home after school, i have all these regets about not saying things in class and not boosting my confidence. thats why i like this blog so much too because i can say anything, having no regrets.
*bridget*
My Kryptonite is probably not always doing perfectly in softball or karate or swimming. If I make a small mistake, usually I can shake it off; but if I make a bigger mistake, then I have a really hard time forgetting it. Then, I over think it and take my mind out of what I'm doing, and the rest of the time I try to get back into it; but it's hard. I really hate it when I over think things in sports because sports are a huge part of my life. I remember one time that I was doing a tornado kick and I was dehydrated and I fell when I was spinning in the air. I was more upset over falling in front of the whole class than I was over breaking my toe; which happened because of me falling out of the air. :) But I remember just getting up and shaking it off, for once, which never happens. Then after class I realized that my toe really hurt. :)
~Jules :)
My krytonite would have to be the harm my friends and family. When someone hurts my friends i feel the need to go back at them and hurt them. And i know that that isnt the right thing to do. But no one should be hurt the way some people hurt them. And it goes the same way with my family. especially my cousin. When someone is rude,or just plan mean. I feel the need to go back at them. And i knw that if someone says it to them that in some point it can happen to me. And i guess that is my kryptonite.
~michaela howell(:
Bridget,
I completly agree with you! i feel the exact same way!! when my friends are around i dont care who else is because i know that they care about me and wouldnt say anything mean or obnoxious. maybe thats why im so shy... because im afraid of the mean people and what they might say.
~Autumn <33
i loveeee what amanda said! i may get mad at my family, but when i hear someone say something about my little sister or anyone... that's just stupid. like you don't know them and you've got no right to say something about them. nobody has any right to say anything about someone else...
-alexis(:
autumn,
samee!! i think thats why im so quiet in language arts, cause none of the people that i normally hang out with is in there. and then like when i do have classes with them, like i dont shut up.. i just need to get used to them not being in the same classes with me all the time cause in high school, i may have none with them.
*bridget*
Matt,
Seeing others in pain and feeling for them makes you a good person. I think some of us in here feel the same way. The "kryptonite" you talk of is the very reason I love my job and love all of you.
I can put on a very strong mask over my kryptonite. People look at me and they would never guess anything that happened to me. My kryptonite would have to be criticism. It's not that I can't take it, it's the fact that I get it from my mom a lot and I usually just keep it bottled up. I'm usually not the kind of person who is open. I don't like people's sympathy, because I feel people have their own problems and they don't need to worry about mine. My mom's the kind of person who is so so nice in front of people. She's almost like Alex in
Nineteen Minutes because she can alter her personalities to the people she's around. I usually now can tell things to Matt and it makes me feel a lot better, and I'm always there to listen to his problems. In a way he's like my bestfriend. I tell him everything.
kelsey siggy
autumn, and bridget, you shouldnt be so shy! you have so much to offer and threw everything ive heard about you guys you sound really nice and weve all got alot in common believe it or not. even if someone said something, shake it off cause its not worth worring over. clearly if they are getting into your life then they dont have much of a life.
-alexis(:
I think my Kryptonite is when somebody I’m close to just suddenly isn’t as close to me anymore, and they leave me wondering why. I’m not a fan of change and when change happens, depending on how drastic the change, it takes me a long time to get used to it. Also, my mind thinks about things way too much and when somebody leaves me wondering why my mind constantly is looking for the answer for as long as it takes until I actually do find out, sometimes even if it takes months. The longer it’s on my mind the more it weakens me. I don’t know how to overcome the effects of my Kryptonite yet, but I hope I will someday.
-Ben
My Kyptonite is that sometimes i am a very angry person and i let my anger take the best of me and make snap desicions about something when im mad...im also veryy...like i worry about apprernces alot and i feel like most of the time im just not good enough for everyone because i was made fun of soo much when i was young i just feel like anything i do..if it isent perfect then its just not good enough for anyone..... but i try to over come that by doing my own thing so im not compared to anyone..... but i feel like im starting to control my anger this year..
>John Magyar<
I think my kryptonite is not being good enough. With my mom it's school, and i always have to give 100% and get good grades. She always compares me to my sister who is miss perfect when it comes to school, and my sister always encourages her. that is what really irritates me. My sister always used to say "i got principal's list every marking period every year in middle school" WOOPDY FREAKING DOO! and with my dad it's sports. None of my siblings play the sports i do, but my dad played bball and so he compares me to him sometimes. Always with foul shots too. He was one of the best foul shooters in high school and college shooting about 80%, and now i have to shoot 80% which i can not manage to do. But luckily i have lacrosse and no one in my family besides cousins play lacrosse so i feel great when i play that sport. So yes my kryptonite would have to be not being good enough to my family and/or friends.
Dan O ^^^^
Dan,
I think that's unfortunate your compared to your siblings!! Just try to be the best that you can be not what others want to see!!
Leah O.
I am not a fan of change either Ben!!
Leah O.
My Kryptonite would have to be like leah oattes's comment. something where your friends are mean and they dont care how you feel. i think its ridiclous how friends would randomly be mean or dont care about you. if someone treated me like that,i'd walk away and tell them to buzz off and maybe even tell him to not bother talking to me anymore.
p.s. leah o, you have a good point(:
-Katiee(:
thanks Kate!!
My weakness is being told that i cant succeeding in what i love to do. When i was (and still am) told things like "its not attainable" it crushed me, i couldnt believe it, but i keep pushing and pushing my way through all of the dout and keep my head held high. Only I have the power to fail. every time im upset over it, i just remind my self that im 13 i have so many years and opportunities ahead of me. My whole life, i have been told that its a one in a million chance and i replied Im that one. And now, im recording my first song in a few weeks because i never lost hope :) so i guess its not so much a weekness anymore than it is making me stronger.
~Jenna~
P.S. and thats just one of my weeknesses lol
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